Nmap Development: Re: Two ideas for NSE

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:09:01PM -0400, Michael Pattrick wrote:
> I have two ideas for NSE, I will keep these brief for now but based on
> the response I may flesh this ideas out further.
>
>  - NSE for Ncat
> NSE is extremely useful for rapidly writing simple network programs,
> currently this programmers are attached to the Nmap scanning engine
> even if they do not benefit from a port scan. NSE for Ncat would allow
> the same fine grained control but without all the overhead of being
> reliant on the network scanner. I imagine this would be best
> implemented by the addition of a new library which would be used by
> both Ncat and Nmap. Nmap would load the library and then add any Nmap
> dependent API(such as the Nmap namespace), and Ncat would do the same.
There's a TODO item to allow doing script scanning without port or ping
scanning. I needed to run whois.nse against a bunch of IPs without ping
scanning them first, and I had to hack the source to do it. Would this
capability work for you?

David Fifield

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